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EXCLUSIVE: As drugs flow across border, new bill would slash traffickers' government benefits
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Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill that would cut federal government benefits for those charged with trafficking drugs or humans across U.S. borders.
Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
Blackburn's Stop Taxpayer Funding of Traffickers Act would ban anyone charged with drug or human trafficking at the United States' international borders from receiving federal benefits including welfare, Social Security, public housing and any retirement, health or disability benefits. Accused traffickers would also be barred from receiving federal grants, contracts, loans and commercial or professional licenses.
Suspects who are later acquitted or have their charges dropped would be eligible for back pay of benefits under the act.
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